How to install Inspire IRCd

InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++ for Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac OS X systems which was created from scratch to be stable, modern and lightweight.
As InspIRCd is one of the few IRC servers written from scratch, it avoids a number of design flaws and performance issues that plague other more established projects, such as UnrealIRCd, while providing the same level of feature parity.
InspIRCd is one of only a few IRC servers to provide a tunable number of features through the use of an advanced but well documented module system. By keeping core functionality to a minimum we hope to increase the stability, security and speed of InspIRCd while also making it customisable to the needs of many different users.

You may need to install additional software first to be able to compile InspIRCd. On Debian this is done by:

aptitude install g++ libgnutls-dev pkg-config make

Installing the IRCD:

So let’s add a new user (ircd in this example) and install the IRC server:

Edit configuration files. See .conf files at the bottom of the article. Those are the default inspircd example files slightly modified by me. I moved all the relevant things to the top to make it easier for you to get your server running.

I also added aliases for the services, so users can use /chanserv or /cs instead of /msg chanserv (same for NickServ, BotServ, HostServ, MemoServ and OperServ). See very bottom of inspircd.conf for the aliases if you wish to change them.

You need to edit inspircd.conf up to “CIDR CONFIGURATION” (about 2 pages).